Um … spoiler alert. Did you read the title of this post? If you still need a spoiler alert, then you’re worse at reading social cues than Ben Affleck’s character in The Accountant. And if you haven’t seen Ben Affleck’s movie The Accountant, then what the hell is wrong with you? Even Jason Blumer’s seen The Accountant. The last movie he saw in the theater was Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.¹

The Accountant is rated R, so I guess if you haven’t seen it and you’re a CPA and under the age of 18, I get it. Otherwise, if you haven’t seen it, I’m pretty sure you’re breaking the Code of Professional Conduct.

And I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great movie. Saw it twice. It was tons fun to watch it in a theater full of (presumably) civilians who still got all the accounting jokes.

It’s also cool to think back on the movie and see how many things Ben Affleck’s character, Christian Wolff, was doing right that a lot of accountants and firm owners do wrong.Read more

I have no good reason for living in Utah. I’m not Mormon and I don’t ski. By state law I could be deported.

I grew up in Seattle where it maybe snows twice a year, and when it does snow, the snow only stays on the ground for like a day, so I’m well aware that I’m a big wuss when it comes to winter. And Utah winters suck. And, yeah. I get it. Winters in the midwest suck so much harder than mine, that it’s embarrassing to say my winters suck at all. But we’re all a long way from South Carolina where winter just means you have to wear a shirt under your overalls.Read more

As you may or may not know, I’m the only Thriveal Member who works in industry. I’m the comptroller for a group of medical office buildings. That’s right, the comptroller. Why comptroller? Two reasons: (1) comptroller is a hilarious word and (2) it confuses people about what I do, so they leave me the hell alone.

On one of our medical campuses, I’m effectively the general manager over real estate. Over the past several years we got pounded by the the one-two punch of the Great Recession and the uncertainty in the medical industry caused by the Affordable Care Act. The result is that we have plenty of available space, and we priced it to move. Read more

For years I’ve considered getting a tattoo. Considered, but I’ve never pulled the trigger. I couldn’t decide what to get. A barbed wire armband? Too generic. A lower back tattoo of the entire text of 1 Corinthians 13? Too preachy.

I was in Greenville for Deeper Weekend 2015, and I was looking for a gift for my wife and my realtor (same person). I wanted to get her something cool, so I popped into the Mary Praytor Gallery, a cool little boutique art gallery on main street.

One interesting aspect of the pricing at the Mary Praytor Gallery was that absolutely no one was there. No customers, no employees, nobody. I even went into the back and hollered¹, “Any y’all here?” But none of them all were there, effectively making their prices for everything $0.00.Read more

Since my hairline isn’t receding and I don’t have a bald spot, I don’t have male pattern baldness. Instead I’ve got female pattern baldness (FPB), which means really thin hair on top. The sides are bushy as hell, but the top is thinner than an Olsen twin.

I first noticed my FPB in a photo back when I kept my hair buzzed. I loved the buzz cut. No bed head. No hat head. Whenever I did get bed and/or hat head, that was the universe telling me to cut my damn hippy hair. Read more